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• ““Complementary” is a term prevalent in England, and carries the implication that unconventional therapies can coexist side by side with mainstream medicine.”

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• “The most prevalent is the "thought, word, and deed" motif, but I've also found what appear to be alliterating triads (of anatomical features, interestingly) in at least one OE prayer.”

  Numbers everywhere

• “How prevalent is social media (social networking sites, blogs, etc.)?”

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• “However, one question that has become increasingly prevalent is whether the impending release of Grand Theft Auto IV (on April 29th), the fourth edition of Rockstar's incredibly successful hyper-violent game franchise, will have an impact on the performance of Iron Man (out in theaters on May 2nd).”

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• “When I used the word prevalent, I was using it to say that racism, as something that could possibly be quantified, is, in my experience, at similar levels than it has been over the last few decades.”

  "When the novelty of the first African American president wears off, the sight of Obama talking on television might have less impact..."

• “She details a legend prevalent among anusim, a Hebrew word meaning "people who suffered forced baptism.”

  Jews in Mexico. a struggle for survival part 2

• “In this latter capacity he has become, amongst other things, a sort of Jiminy Cricket or social conscience, pointing out the seamy side of certain prevalent business practices.”

  Is the Press Too Sensational?

• “And so prevalent is Chinese ownership of convenience stores that Spaniards routinely refer to the shops themselves as "chinos.”

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• “From here we can look out upon the future, a future which will, according to this story, always involve some sort of "return" -- a word prevalent throughout The Transition Handbook and infused within the Transition imagination of re-skilling, relocalization, rebuilding - as we descend from these great but unsustainably rarified heights to a world built on a more human scale.”

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• “The bold action has been going against the idea prevalent among medics, to show that sugar does not necessarily have to be swallowed to act on glucose levels: by simple contact with the tissues in the oral cavity, particularly those under the tongue, a rapid elevation of blood sugar is observed, in fact even faster acting than if the sugar was swallowed.”

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